The Black Experience in America

From the opening

1. African Origins The Human Cradle West African Empires The Culture of West Africa

3. Slavery As Capitalism The Shape of American Slavery North American and South American Slavery Slavery and the Formation of Character Slave Response

4. All Men Are Created Equal Slavery and the American Revolution Slave Insurrections Growing Racism

5. A Nation Divided Black Moderates and Militants White Liberals Growth of Extremism

6. From Slavery to Segregation Blue, Gray, and Black Reconstruction and Its Failure The New Racism

7. Racism and Democracy Fighting Jim Crow Making the World Safe for Democracy Urban Riots The Klan Revival

8. The Crisis of Leadership The Debate Over Means and Ends Booker T. Washington: The Trumpet of Conciliation W. E. B. DuBois: The Trumpet of Confrontation Marcus Garvey: The Trumpet of Pride A. Philip Randolph: The Trumpet of Mobilization

9. The New Negro Immigration and Migration Harlem: "The Promised Land" The Negro Renaissance Black Nationalism

10. Fighting Racism at Home and Abroad Hard Times Again The Second World War The U.S. and the U.N.

11. Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience Schools and Courts The Civil Rights Movement

Notes and References (omitted from electronic version) Bibliography (omitted from electronic version) Index (omitted from electronic version)

During the last several years, the study of American history has turned a new direction. Previously, it emphasized how the various immigrant groups in America shed their divergent heritages and amalgamated into a new nationality. More recently, scholars and laymen alike have become more sensitive to the ways in which these newcomers have kept aspects from their past alive, and there is a new awareness of the degree to which ethnicity continues as a force within America.

Most of the original settlers were British, Protestant, and white. Many of the later arrivals differed from them, in one or more ways. History books usually depicted these new waves of immigrants as assimilating almost fully into American society.

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